Tasting- St. Clement Chardonnay

St. Clement Vineyard Chardonnay 
-Chardonnay
-Carneros, Nappa Valley
-California, USA 
-2012
-$23.99...on sale for $16.99

The Winery notes: 
Enticing aromas of red apple and honeysuckle. On the palate, vanilla cream soda mingle with tropical fruit flavorsand notes of cantaloupe. This finishes with bright acidity.

Vivino App Ratings were overall 3.5 stars and people said it was a good Nappa Wine








My Notes: 

I was excited about this wine because I bought it with the Merlot I previously blog

ged about.  Gormet Pantry had some solid wines, on massive sales, so I thought this was steal. Especially since the Merlot was fantastic! 

However, after reading the notes from the winery about this wine...I did not smell or taste any of that. At first smell from pour, it was the oddest smell coming from a wine I have ever smelled and my parents drink a lot of wine. Honestly the only word to describe the smell of this wine is funky. There were earthy smells, old fruit maybe and almost molding. 
The smell screwed up the tasting all together because I wanted nothing to do with the wine. The first thing was the alcohol was very strong on the first taste, too strong. It was very dry and I could not taste anything. It had almost no taste. 

Honestly I have never hated a wine, as much as I hated this wine. 

After letting it airrate, I started to taste some of the different tastes, St. Clement was discussing. The tropical fruit, definitely and citrus. It had a lot going on. It went from nothing to a lot going on after only a couple of tastes. 

So after a second tasting, I thought I could give it a chance and then one more taste and I still hated it.
I paid way too much for this wine and now I wasted my money.